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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1931
Page
3
A formatted notice from the Corry Evening Journal lists address and staff roles including Arthur Colegrove and Fred Kimball Inc. It provides advertising rate notes and distribution details, noting post office and carrier subscriptions. The fragment reflects typical newspaper masthead information.
An editorial from the Westerly Rhode Island Sun questions the Nautilus submarine venture. It notes observers doubt the craft and criticizes the hull modifications as flimsy. The piece suggests the submarine may reach the other side or far north, but doubts its ultimate success.
Joseph H. Appel, advertising manager for John Wanamaker, cites a convention finding that among 83 college graduates on executive staffs, 21 had cultural courses and 12 had vocational training. Survey responses show each group would switch to the other type of study if started over, suggesting a balanced approach may best serve lifelong careers.
The two sons of President Fig of Mexico spend a summer in New York as students. Guillermo aims to be a businessman and punches an adding machine while Pernando aspires to be a Si engineer, busy with battery charging. The piece praises youth energy and enterprise shaping modern Mexico.
Funeral services for Mrs. Charles Pitt were held today after she died suddenly Wednesday while at a family reunion at Pindley Lake. The rites began at the Tate home in Corry and continued at Wie UB Church with Rev. G. B. Morgan presiding. Interment followed in Pine Grove cemetery.
A collage of short items recalls past events in Corry. The Baptist Sunday School picnic at Clark Bowens Grove is noted, Mae Wightman hosted friends for Miss Webber of Youngstown, and a severe thunderstorm hit Corry between 3 and 4 pm. Mr and Mrs Robert Heerlein returned from an eastern trip, Teva Page heads to Grove City for summer school, and Burr Beecher with family and Charles Turner visited from Lyndonville aboard a Maxwell car.
Columbus township faces potential bond issues if state specifications require new bridges on roads up for vote. Officials argue costs loom regardless of coal, comparing to Roosevelt highway bridge nearby to illustrate expense. Board members offer explanations and invite questions to clarify circumstances. The township currently has no bonded indebtedness and seeks resident understanding.
The Loop Orchards near North East Findley Lake Corry road opens Monday June 20 1981 with cherries available for picking under supervision. Customers may choose 4 single bushels a dozen baskets or more and pay 40 a pound for sour cherries or is? a pound for sweets. Ladders and eight quart baskets provided free of charge. Additional ripe fruit promised in one to three weeks at the same price.
A short feature on common word usage and pronunciation. It highlights misused terms like tempt and intend and explains the word redress as amends for wrongs, urging readers to expand vocabulary by daily study.
Answers: 1 The science of metals and extraction methods. 2 The name Mary Anne Evans wrote under is George Eliot. 4 Lake Michigan leads Great Lakes fish production. 4 Sam Houston served as commander in chief of the Texan Army in the U.S.-Mexico War. 5 The native people are Chinese.
A reader presents a geometry puzzle about a tree struck by lightning. A 19 percent tall top breaks off and rests on a stump about 96 feet from the base, asking for the stump height. The solution uses proportional relationships and subtraction to derive the stump height.
Eris June 27 County commissioners heard from Cole man Mark that a 100 bed TB hospital would cost about $75,000 annually to maintain, or roughly $2 per patient per day. Officials estimate $100,000 including all costs. Three county TB hospitals exist now, with another planned in a neighboring county after a $400,000 bond issue.
Governor Gifford Pinchot prepares a batch of state job appointments impacting Erie County with several shifts in the Park and Harbor Commission and highway department. Nine member board changes redraw the lineup, replacing four incumbents with new appointees as Harrisburg prepares final action next week.
In James town on June 27 the jury in the John Champion murder trial failed to agree after deliberating all night. Foreman Ralph McCutcheon reported a split verdict with ten jurors for acquittal and two for first degree manslaughter. Champion, charged with killing Percy Hatchett at 207 Winsor Street, could be retried in November. The defense says self defense after Hatchett advanced with a knife amid an argument.
Police Chief John J. Warren reinstates two suspended officers James Lieutenin aiRK and Robert Rahn along with Patrolman Ray Centner who were suspended on insubordination charges. They resumed duty tonight as proceedings by Officer Edward Lefferts proceed before Judge Jonson in Gilroy Court.
John J. Burgoyne, city passenger agent, elected president of the Ice County Motor Club following the resignation of vice president and director Hi Lee Munger. Burgoyne will complete Munger’s term, with Milton Schaffner named vice president and Munger remaining on the board.
Warren states no party has requested dismissal and the police enforcement inquiry continues. He claims to have clean hands and says he is ready to prove his case in court while noting reinstatement discussions involving Rahn Denther and Letfenty members of the probe.
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